10-28-2008, 07:47 PM | #31 |
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CB has plenty of zealots who "look beyond the mark." They think they know what Church leaders *really* mean and feel they have license to impose their views on others.
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10-28-2008, 07:47 PM | #32 |
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I've said this before. The LDS Church is on the wrong side of history because that's what it is, at a cellular level. It sprang up and grew in popularity at the juncture between the late Enlightenment and onset of the modern age. If it's not on the wrong side of history it's nothing. It's laughable that anyone should suggest, for example, that the LDS Church is not a creationist sect. Its romance with the Masons is totally understandable; the Masons represented the start of a move away from the starkness of the Enlightenment; you see this confluence in the pictures by Napoleon's artists in Egypt. Precise, but starting to get abstract at the edges and as time passes. The LDS Church even tried to give new life to an Old Testament outlook of prophets, visions and miracles. the LDS Church grew as part of the Romantic age. Leo Tolstoy admired Joseph Smith because they shared the same nostalgia for belief, for miracles. This is what Harold Bloom is saying in noah's signature, if you decipher the Bloomspeak. It's why so many intellectual or disaffected Mormons are so drawn to postmodernism, the contemporary iteration of Romanticism.
If the LDS Church stops being on the wrong side of history, on that day it will cease to exist. That's what it is, why its followers love it. They don't want to be on the right side of history. Last time I said this my friend LA Ute told me I'm making a fool of myself here. So if I'm doing that somebody plase confirm and I'll try to stop.
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10-28-2008, 07:51 PM | #33 |
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and this never happens with the "intellectuals."
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10-28-2008, 07:55 PM | #34 |
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Hey, when are you going to post that LSAT score that you hinted about? That's pretty cool that you are really an intellectual masquerading as a dumbass. (quite convincingly, I might add)
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10-28-2008, 07:58 PM | #35 |
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I don't try to impose my views on anyone. CB just happens to have some true pieces of work when it comes to the pharasaic approach to Mormonism.
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10-28-2008, 08:01 PM | #36 | |
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10-28-2008, 08:02 PM | #37 |
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Well done.
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10-28-2008, 08:02 PM | #38 | |
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I think both sides of the extreme, as evidenced on CB and CG have many of their own works of art.
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10-28-2008, 08:04 PM | #39 |
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I'm guessing you're right. Kind of amusing, though, to see who's willing to point the finger at their leadership and yell "hypocrite!"
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I still think you are an asshole, however. You are drawn to postmoderinism, Non-Sequitar is drawn to scantilly clad women with oscillating man made hooters. I think disaffected mormons are quite a diverse group, reflective of the overall religion IMO. For the record I much rather hang out with Non"bown-bicha-bown-bown"Sequitar.
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